EU Wine Exporters Competing in Changing International Markets
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. EU Exporters in the Global Market: A Short Review
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. A Conceptual Framework for Trade Analysis Based on Sophistication
3.2. Data
4. Results
4.1. The Current Picture
4.2. Dynamic Analysis
5. Discussion and Main Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Still Bottled Wines | Sparkling Bottled Wines | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
2010–2011 | 2019 and 2022 | 2010–2011 | 2019 and 2022 | |
France | 5129 | 6493 | 2902 | 4191 |
Germany | 995 | 867 | 132 | 124 |
Hungary | 47 | 59 | 13 | 7 |
Italy | 4393 | 5155 | 667 | 1995 |
Portugal | 754 | 825 | 13 | 11 |
Spain | 1700 | 1873 | 505 | 504 |
Others (rest of the world) | 7186 | 8342 | 620 | 1000 |
World | 20,205 | 23,614 | 4852 | 7831 |
2019 and 22 | Still Wine | Sparkling Wine |
---|---|---|
USD (PPP) | ||
France | 50.155 | 54.584 |
Germany | 50.879 | 47.880 |
Hungary | 42.316 | 39.648 |
Italy | 53.253 | 49.938 |
Portugal | 46.026 | 38.292 |
Spain | 47.260 | 49.425 |
World | 48.478 | 51.330 |
AVU % Variation | C-Consy LN Variation | GEO Effect | GDP Effect | AVU % Variation | C-Consy LN Variation | GEO Effect | GDP Effect | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
still wine | sparkling wine | |||||||
France | 49.2 | 16.5 | 2.5 | 14.0 | −5.6 | 15.1 | 1.2 | 13.9 |
Germany | 4.0 | 12.1 | −1.7 | 13.8 | −17.3 | 7.4 | −5.0 | 12.5 |
Hungary | 2.3 | 18.1 | 1.5 | 16.6 | −20.6 | 1.4 | −18.2 | 19.6 |
Italy | 21.3 | 10.6 | −2.1 | 12.7 | 10.3 | 11.9 | −1.2 | 13.0 |
Portugal | −8.9 | 12.1 | 0.4 | 11.6 | 32.0 | 47.0 | 36.7 | 10.3 |
Spain | 9.8 | 9.6 | −4.0 | 13.7 | −17.1 | 8.0 | −3.6 | 11.6 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleHenke, Roberto, and Anna Carbone. 2025. "EU Wine Exporters Competing in Changing International Markets" World 6, no. 2: 77. https://doi.org/10.3390/world6020077
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